http://www.pratttribune.com/section/ pratttribune.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. Wed, 22 May 2013 20:42:18 +0000 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130521/NEWS/130529839?rssfeed=true Tue, 21 May 2013 9:24:16 Gale Rose http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130521/NEWS/130529839 Beaver sports fans may be yelling "Fore" in the future if a proposal to reinstate golf at Pratt Community College is approved.
A member of the PCC Board of Trustees, Darrell Shumway, presented the proposal at the regular monthly Trustee meeting Monday night. The Trustees took no action on the matter but did discuss the possibility at length.
The new owners of Park Hills Country club are interested in helping the [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130521/NEWS/130529843?rssfeed=true Tue, 21 May 2013 9:18:18 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130521/NEWS/130529843 Part of its business plan to reorganize after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy was for South Wind Hospice to secure outside financing and to negotiate a discounted agreement on industrial revenue bonds issued by the City of Pratt in 2005 for the construction of the hospice house on Yucca Lane.
That has been accomplished, said Edward Nazar of Redmond and Nazar, LLP, attorney for South Wind Hospice, as he requested that Pratt City commissioners [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130521/NEWS/130529849?rssfeed=true Tue, 21 May 2013 9:03:32 Carol Bronson http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130521/NEWS/130529849 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130521/NEWS/130529856?rssfeed=true Tue, 21 May 2013 8:44:47 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130521/NEWS/130529856 The Agape Health Clinic will be open on June 1 from 8 to 11 a.m. The clinic is located in the Chandler Building on Pratt Community College Campus. Please bring proof of income and photo I.D.
The next dental clinic is Aug. 10, but patients must come through the clinic to obtain a referral.
For questions, please call 388-4191.
]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130521/NEWS/130529858?rssfeed=true Tue, 21 May 2013 8:42:50 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130521/NEWS/130529858 A team captain meeting for the 2013 Relay for Life will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 23 at the Pratt Municipal Building. All captains are encouraged to attend.
]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529972?rssfeed=true Mon, 20 May 2013 12:23:54 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529972 A one-vehicle roll-over accident on K-61 northeast of Preston claimed one life Monday morning. Another child was transported by helicopter to a Wichita hospital and an adult and child were taken by ambulance to Pratt Regional Medical Center.
Names and further information is not available at this time.
]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529973?rssfeed=true Mon, 20 May 2013 11:42:00 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529973 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529976?rssfeed=true Mon, 20 May 2013 11:16:17 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529976 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130519/NEWS/130519262?rssfeed=true Sun, 19 May 2013 0:01:00 +0000 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130519/NEWS/130519262 Kansas State University's Bronson Blasi, a senior in architectural engineering, Pratt, is one of just five national recipients of a scholarship from the Besal Scholarship Fund for the 2013-2014 school year. Blasi is receiving a $3,000 scholarship.
The merit-based scholarship is awarded through the Robert J. Besal Memorial Education Fund, which was established to improve education in illuminating engineering and to recognize top lighting students [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130518/NEWS/130519245?rssfeed=true Sat, 18 May 2013 0:01:00 +0000 Gale Rose http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130518/NEWS/130519245 A pair of promoted sheriff's officers has filled two sheriff's department vacancies with familiar faces.
Sheriff Sgt. Jimmy White was promoted to undersheriff and detention Sgt. Dan Ailstock has been promoted to jail administrator.
Both have been filling these positions in an interim capacity. The pair officially took office Monday, May 13 when Pratt County Sheriff Vernon Chinn notified the Pratt County [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519440?rssfeed=true Thu, 16 May 2013 10:44:43 Gale Rose http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519440 It didn't take long for the Kansas Legislature to respond to the amendment in the Kansas Constitution allowing the Legislature to change the way watercraft are taxed in Kansas.
Legislators created the bill and Gov. Sam Brownback signed it into law on April 16.
The new law will reduce the boat tax to 11.5 percent of assessed value effective on Jan. 1, 2014. The rate will fall again a year later to five percent of [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519441?rssfeed=true Thu, 16 May 2013 9:01:50 J.W. Keene http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519441 Pratt County Commissioner Glenna Borho has questioned policies presently being used to regulate, or not regulate, employee use of vacation and sick leave. Accumulation of hours of both, according to Borho, does not seem to be fair to Pratt County.
One of the major flaws in the present policies being used, allows employees to be paid for accumulated hours at their most recent rate of pay even though hours were earned years ago when employees were [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519439?rssfeed=true Thu, 16 May 2013 8:58:46 Carol Bronson http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519439 The Pratt USD 382 Board of Education approved the donation of two scholarships at its regular meeting Monday night.
Letha Mae Gilham will give a scholarship of $500 per year, renewable for up to four years, for a total gift of $4,000.
"She really wants to help kids go to college," Superintendent Suzan Patton commented.
In addition, the family of Clifford Brown, who taught [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130515/NEWS/130519495?rssfeed=true Wed, 15 May 2013 16:52:45 Gale Rose http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130515/NEWS/130519495 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130514/NEWS/130519666?rssfeed=true Tue, 14 May 2013 9:58:34 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130514/NEWS/130519666 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130514/NEWS/130519676?rssfeed=true Tue, 14 May 2013 9:01:15 Gale Rose http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130514/NEWS/130519676 It was a heavy technology night at the Skyline Board of Education meeting as the Board considered the school going paperless and voted to expand Sawyer Virtual Academy to add K-5 grades making the academy a K-12 school.
The Board is going paperless at their July meeting. At the Monday night meeting the board got a taste of what it will be like for the students when Skyline Technical Coordinator Kim Ghumm brought in iPads for each member and walked [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130514/NEWS/130519678?rssfeed=true Tue, 14 May 2013 8:56:27 Gale Rose http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130514/NEWS/130519678 Emergency services were kept busy over the weekend in Pratt County with one-vehicle accidents on Saturday, Sunday and Monday mornings that sent five to hospitals.
Two men, one from Medicine Lodge, suffered injuries in a one-vehicle accident at 7 a.m. Saturday morning at Preston.
Daniel Enriquez, 49 of Meeker, Colo., was traveling northeast on K61 in a 2011 Dodge truck when the vehicle went off the road on the [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130513/NEWS/130519734?rssfeed=true Mon, 13 May 2013 17:52:41 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130513/NEWS/130519734 In a surprise ceremony on Monday, Pratt Community College renamed East Hall residence center as Dr. William Wojciechowski Hall, in honor of the president who is retiring after 24 years of service.
]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130513/NEWS/130519811?rssfeed=true Mon, 13 May 2013 9:51:25 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130513/NEWS/130519811 Pratt Regional Medical Center is celebrating National Hospital Week May 12-18. "Hospital Week, first and foremost, is a celebration of people," Susan Page, PRMC President and CEO said. "We're extremely proud our staff, volunteers and medical staff. We recognize the important role they play in extending a sense of trust to our patients and our communities."
This week PRMC will honor 64 employees at the annual service awards banquet. Employees are [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130512/NEWS/130519893?rssfeed=true Sun, 12 May 2013 0:01:00 +0000 Ascha Lee http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130512/NEWS/130519893 With school ending next week, elementary school grades are rounding out the year with field trips.
First and second grade both took trips to the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism. On Wednesday, second grade did a scavenger hunt in the museum, learned about Kansas animals, and got a brief history of the department.
After their tour, the second graders stopped at Lemon Park to go for a walk on the [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/section/ pratttribune.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. Wed, 22 May 2013 20:42:18 +0000